Cheat Sheet - Border Kids Are Becoming Obama's Katrina

Read This, Skip That .... July 09, 2014 GOING SOUTH 1. Border Kids Are Becoming Obama's Katrina President Obama is heading to Texas for a fundraiser but won't visit the site of a historic immigration crisis. Michael Tomasky writes that the president has delayed action while the right whips up xenophobic hatred and the meltdown worsens. This is not what Obama supporters voted for. Read it at The Daily Beast GOD LOVES ME MORE 2. Al Qaeda to ISIS: Get Off My Lawn Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of ISIS, has been branded by one of al Qaeda's top spiritual leaders as "deviant" for creating an Islamic state contrary to principles of Sharia law. That may not matter to Baghdadi, says Jamie Dettmer, as he has used social media to capture the imagination of young people looking for a different kind of savior. Read it at The Daily Beast OOPS 3. Forgotten Smallpox Found in Maryland Beware of opening unmarked boxes because they may be filed with history's most deadly diseases. A scientist cleaning out a storage room in a National Institutes of Health building in Maryland discovered vials of freeze-dried smallpox virus from the 1950s—the first time an unaccounted for sample has been discovered. (The vials were intact and sealed.) Smallpox was declared to be eradicated in the 1980s, and the only known samples are under heavy security in Atlanta—where the samples have now been transferred—and Russia. "We don't yet know if it's live and infectious," an official at the Centers for Disease Control said. Read it at The Associated Press TRAGEDY 4. East Coast Storm Kills 5 A powerful storm struck the East Coast of the U.S. on Tuesday night, and left thousands of people without power as well as five dead. The Syracuse, New York area was hard-hit: Four deaths were reported in nearby Smithfield and four homes were destroyed. A boy in Maryland was killed, and eight others under the age of 15 were injured while trying to hide from branches and debris thrown about by the wind. In the Philadelphia region alone, 174,000 people were left without power. Read it at Reuters SCARY 5. NSA Spied on Muslim-American Leaders The list of prominent Muslim-American leaders that the NSA and FBI spied on have been released from documents leaked by Edward Snowden. Included in the list are Faisal Gill, a Republican who has a top-secret security clearance and served in the Department Homeland Security under George W. Bush, Asim Ghafoor, a lawyer who represents people in terrorism cases, Hooshang Amirahmadi, an Iranian-American professor at Rutgers University, Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relation (CAIR) which is the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the U.S., and Agha Saeed, a former professor at California State University who supports Muslim civil liberties. They appeared on a spreadsheet with 7,485 email addresses that were monitored between 2002 and 2008. Most of those are foreigners believed to be linked to al Qaeda, Hamas, or Hezbollah. According to The Intercept, which published the names, "none [of the Americans] advocate violent jihad or is known to have been implicated in any crime, despite years of intense scrutiny by the government and the press." In one document that details how intelligence personnel are to format memos justifying FISA surveillance, the fake name offered as a placeholder was "Mohammed Raghead." Read it at Haaretz ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH Obama Shakes Hands with Man in Horse Mask Also offered legal weed in Denver. ESCALATING Hamas, Israel Trade Rocket Fire Gaza, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem struck. BRUTAL 118-mph Winds Hit Japan's Islands 25 injured so far in Typhoon Neoguri. OH SNAP George Clooney Slams Daily Mail "Dangerous" story about mother-in-law. VICTORY Germany Beats Brazil, 7-1 Brazil made one late-game goal. GET The Cheat Sheet A speedy, smart summary of news and must-reads from across the Web. You'll love the featured original stories on politics, entertainment, and more from The Daily Beast's diverse group of contributors. GET Culture Beast Weekly cultural recommendations from The Daily Beast. The Queen of Creepy Cookies by Tim Teeman Big Tobacco's 'Type A' Personality Myth by Kent Sepkowitz Who Will Score Emmy Nods? by Kevin Fallon

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